Boing Boing: Firefox extension blocks IDN phishing exploit, warns of non-ASCII chars

Tuesday, February 8, 2005

posted by Cory Doctorow at 11:25:29 PM permalink | Other blogs' comments

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Support Bloggers' Rights! HOWTO: Get a link posted to Boing Boing Boing Boing Mobile powered by Winksite Fark rules! This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution. Boing Boing is a trademark of Happy Mutants LLC in the United States [and other countries]. Stats (About our stats) defeat censorware Policies Our first five years' worth of posts in one file	Tuesday, February 8, 2005 Firefox extension blocks IDN phishing exploit, warns of non-ASCII chars Kevin sez, "I've modified the excellent SpoofStick FireFox extension to warn users when non-ASCII characters are discovered in the current URL. This should help protect FireFox users from IDN exploits until the next stable FireFox release." Link (Thanks, Kevin!) posted by Cory Doctorow at 11:25:29 PM permalink \| Other blogs' comments Email this entry to: Your email address: Message (optional):	Boing Boing Sponsored by: Your Text Ad Here Get BB by email: